Steve Bowbrick
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GROSS is a materialist critique of the immaterial joys of cinema. Header: It Happened One Night, 1934
London
Joined February 2007
In 1913, in the USA, somebody decided to keep track of the rental income the movies were pulling in. This came to be known as the GROSS. I'm telling the story of Hollywood through the top-grossing film of each year since then. It's a FREE newsletter:.
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I downloaded The Odyssey and asked ChatGPT to divide it up neatly into sections I can read across a year and it basically said: "there are 24 chapters - read one per fortnight, that's roughly a year." I think it's given up.
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Tip: read Les Misérables one chapter per day - there are 365 chapters, you'll be done in a year and everything else you read will be filtered through Victor Hugo's mind-altering, super-immersive VR goggles. It'll make you dizzy.
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One of a total of THREE human beings who STOOD ON THE ACTUAL FUCKING MOON TWICE (and also, incidentally, was in charge on Apollo 13 - you know, the one that went so badly wrong they had to make a movie about it and put Tom Hanks in it.
We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran. Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today.
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You don't want to become UNGOVERNABLE you want to become GOVERNMENT
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The Godfather is a decadent restatement of American capitalism’s cruelty…
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This is a tax on introverts.
Sometimes the value of a 'human touch' is negative. People willing to pay 50% more for Waymo than Lyft, despite longer waiting times.
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It’s as if this movie knew it was going to be the first in a multi-decade franchise, as if it knew it was likely to create the template for the action hero; leaping, laughing and slapping entitled aristocrats and bureaucrats around…
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I should never have let the insurance people put that black box in the car
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There's a dry cleaner on Kilburn High Road that's turning into a bike shop
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"You're an ultra-resourceful agronomist who doesn't know the meaning of 'can't'. Give me a detailed, step-by-step guide to restarting subsistence agriculture from a scorched and depopulated wasteland…".
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I feel sick and ashamed that these two idiots are now going to prison - FOR YEARS. What is wrong with us? It’s infantile, ridiculous. Why aren’t they planting trees or clearing paths or something?
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Today’s obscure radio merch is this t-shirt (mugs, mouse mats etc. too) celebrating WEVD, the remarkable New York City radio station started in honour of Eugene Victor Debs that went on air in 1927.
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Got a few art books on eBay so here's a list on the blog in case that's your thing. Most of these are quite rare: there's a great big gorgeous Gerhard Richter, a bonkers Semiotext(e), a Jean-Luc Godard box-set, Deleuze on Francis Bacon, Sol LeWitt grids…
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Please enjoy a wander along the world's High Street: 10,000 glorious shopfronts, from six continents, recent additions from Peru, Chicago, Tamil Nadu, Kyōto, Helensburgh, Krakow, San Francisco, Ethiopia, Oswestry… (are there any shops in Antarctica?):
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Amazon's AI creates these slightly distressing montages to keep customers permanently slightly tense. It probably boosts sales.
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Very ungrateful planet.
the planet is unimaginably lucky that the dominant species on our planet is the one capable of empathy or self-reflection. the fact that we can feel guilt about our externalities and yearn to do better is the only reason we can conceive of ourselves as evil in the first place.
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This coin is too big and of no practical use. I’d be surprised if you sell any at all
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